Armored Warfare - BWP-1 Puma Polish Tank EU/NA CD Key

Product Description

Code for Polish BWP-1M Puma. This Tier 4 Armored Fighting Vehicle is an upgraded version of the BWP-1.

While an advanced design for its time, in the 1980s-1990s the BMP-1 was already considered rather obsolete, especially when it came to protection, and multiple attempts were made to improve its performance. In the 1990s, the Polish military evaluated several prototypes designed for this very purpose. This development led to the notion to improve the hull as much as it could be improved and the result of this initiative was an improved vehicle called BWP-1M “Puma”. The BWP-1M project consisted of several stages – with various turrets and armaments. The one featured in Armored Warfare consists of the standard BMP-1 turret that is equipped with smoke grenade launchers and laser designation warning system. The side protection is increased by two skirts covering the tracks. The floats are extended to increase their displacement and to improve the vehicle’s amphibious capability. The electronics and communications equipment were upgraded as well.

The vehicle with the BMP-1 turret represents the first stage of the “Puma” development. Between 2001 and 2009 several turrets – including foreign unmanned ones (such as the Israeli RCWS-30) – were tested on the “Puma” hull. There was a plan to upgrade a large number of BWP-1’s to the Puma standard and the prototype of the finalized variant was supposed to be ready until April 2011, but the requested number of vehicles was constantly being reduced until – in October 2009 – the project was finally cancelled in prototype stage due to “unfavorable results of the trials”.